CVE-2013-1913

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the load_image function in file-xwd.c in the X Window Dump (XWD) plug-in in GIMP 2.6.9 and earlier, when used with glib before 2.24, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large color entries value in an X Window System (XWD) image dump.

Affected products

GIMP: through 2.6.9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0, 6.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64105
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947868
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64105
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947868
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01

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